Re: [IRCA] Greetings from Florence

[Andrea Lawendel <lawendel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michael, buona sera!

I've enjoyed your florentine report on IRCA's mailing list and on behalf of
the small Italian community devoted to serious AM band DX I wish you a warm
welcome in our country!
Living in a crowded urban area, albeit largely built at least two centuries
ago, will not help your DX monitoring. The situation usually gets
dramatically better if you're lucky enough to spot some countryside
location (even better a seaside one) within a reasonable distance.
Sometimes, it even helps having a town-park (like the Boboli, in your case)
at hand. Anyway, I strongly suggest you to include a non-SDR portable in
your portable equipment, an ultralight like the Tecsun 390, or the PL660
would be fine: it can assist you in further exploring your "remote"
opportunities.  [hereby attached, via my Google Drive link, please find a
short clip of Taiwan's superpower on 1557 logged on a beach in Sicily with
a barefoot Tecsun PL390, to show how it feels like, one can experience
similar receptions on some TA signals]

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<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cagruSYfnJBcB0hqjEnYIxSCCSuAS9Pr/view?usp=drive_web>
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Essentially, there's a single geographically spread Medium Waves community
active here. Some of us are located in the North West (Lombardy/Piedmont),
some other in the North East (Friuli Venezia Giulia) or in Emilia Romagna.
Very few of us are able to DX from home, however, and many relies upon a
few remoted (Perseus based) listening posts. There's even a
longwire/beverage antennas site mid-way between Venice and Trieste, close
to the Adriatic Sea coast.
I'll be happy to assist you in your hunt for new DX point of references, so
please don't hesitate asking.

Andy Lawendel
Milan
www.radiopassioni.it
whatsapp +39-348-2245512


On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Michael Yule <michaeldyule@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi everyone - as some of you saw about 4 months ago, my wife and I moved
> to Florence Italy, which explains the complete absence of loggings from me
> ever since. We spent the first 3 months in a tourist apartment while we
> looked for a permanent home, and we found one and moved in thereat the
> beginning of November. Now we are getting settled, and have some furniture
> etc I have been assessing DX possibilities from this location and will be
> unpacking the ELAD and trying to get a sense of RFI levels. We live on the
> third floor of a 4 floor 15th century palazzo in the Oltrarno district (the
> 'left bank' of the Arno, so to speak) so I shouldnt really have to contend
> too much with rebar faraday cages, but I do look into an interior courtyard
> on the balcony, with no real clear view outward - one story of the building
> completely surrounds my location, about 25 metres away. The balcony is the
> full length of the apartment, but is very narrow.
>
> It is quite likely that I will find a fair degree of RFI once I get things
> set up, and that I will want to go out on mini-dxpeditions into the Tuscan
> countryside (which starts about a 20 minute bus ride away), so I am
> thinking I will want to do as portable a setup as I can. So this is leading
> me to believe that what I should do is build (or buy, if possible!) a
> broadband FSL and be sort of a mini-European Gary DeBock. This will give me
> the portability I want, and also make it so I dont have to try and erect an
> antenna either inside (at which thought I shudder, having just come from
> the realm of the fantastic DKAZ...) or navigate any potential problems with
> neighbours or the buildings owner when trying to erect one outside on or
> around the balcony. Just as an aside, the place I live was, as I say, built
> in the 15th century by the Frescobaldi family and it is still owned by
> them, the current Marchese (Marquis) living on the floor above me.
>
> So the next steps are going to be to review all the literature on FSL
> construction, decide how big I want to go, and start assembling materials..
> I dont know if Guy Atkins ever published anything on making the FSL
> broadband, but if he did could someone send me a link? And if anyone has
> one for sale, please let me know as well!
>
> Thanks very much everyone, I'll let you know as things progress. I might
> be able to help a bit on TA identification once I get going since I will be
> closer to the source as well!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Michael Yule
> Firenze, Italia
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